Tony Abbott of the USS Hockey Wilderness

Danila Yurov has two shots in nine minutes, the rest of the team has 13 through 59 minutes. I don't care how he looked in preseason, he can't be worse in a top-six role than what we're seeing now.

#mnwild #mood

Awful season for Middleton so far. 38.5% expected goal percentage and four minor penalties in five games. #mnwild

The #mnwild have now gone 244 minutes and 6 seconds since scoring a 5-on-5 goal without David Jiricek on the ice.

The Wild should retire the No. 22 so I stop thinking "Why is Nino Niederreiter on the ice?"

If you’re past the first round of the draft and anyone named Kirill is still on the board… take them.

Average Number of NHL Games for #mnwild...

Second-Rounders: 280 (15 picks)

Third Rounders: 159 (13 picks)

From 2000 - 2016.

18 of those 28 players never played 100 NHL games. 12 played 20 games or fewer. 7 never played a game at all.

The early returns on Marco Rossi's microstats are phenomenal.

* Looks like Robert Thomas in terms of shot/shot assists
* Toe-to-toe with Brock Boeser/Cole Caufield in terms of generating+setting up scoring chances
* No one tracked makes both more high-danger passes and shots off HD passes

#mnwild

Boldy center experiment over. Lasted two periods. Marco Rossi back on top line.

Wild have been unbelievably disorganized tonight.

No Öhgren on PP2 feels curious to me.

1-0 Stars after 1. Boldy lost 5 of 7 faceoffs that period, one leading to a goal. To me, this is easily avoidable by taking Johansson off the line and using Rossi, Gaudreau or Hartman as the center. Boldy is not an NHL center

Filip Gustavsson finally breaks on the fourteenth shot. That's the sixth-straight game the Dallas Stars have scored in the first period against the #mnwild. Haven't had a clean first period against Dallas since Game 4 of their 2022 playoff series.

Wild must hate having defensemen on the ice. Bogosian goes for fighting. No Middleton or Bogosian for the next few minutes.

When you're already missing Jonas Brodin, it doesn't feel like a great idea to get Jake Middleton in the box for five minutes. Wild lose the tradeoff with him and Brendan Smith.

Calling this one now: Those Zuccarello/Foligno contracts are going to age worse than Twitter.